querist
Gold Supporter
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2022
- Messages
- 539
- Location
- Longview, Texas, USA
- Aircraft
- 1956 Cessna 172. No letter after the 172, it's too old.
Hello CFIs and DPEs,
After reading the FARs, I'm fairly certain that any CFI can sign me off for airport communications that would allow me to fly in controlled airspace/communicate with a towered airport once I have my sport pilot certificate, because I don't see anything there specifying that it needs to be a CFI for the specific type of aircraft and honestly there's not much difference in the communications as far as I can tell.
Can any of the CFIs or DPEs here confirm or disprove that concept? I'm pretty sure that the flight program I'm intending to use for my ASEL Sport (to allow me to get past the problem of not having a gyro for solos) will actually train me in towered communications, I want to be sure that I have a backup plan to receive the endorsement because my local airport is D airspace and a towered airport.
Thanks
After reading the FARs, I'm fairly certain that any CFI can sign me off for airport communications that would allow me to fly in controlled airspace/communicate with a towered airport once I have my sport pilot certificate, because I don't see anything there specifying that it needs to be a CFI for the specific type of aircraft and honestly there's not much difference in the communications as far as I can tell.
Can any of the CFIs or DPEs here confirm or disprove that concept? I'm pretty sure that the flight program I'm intending to use for my ASEL Sport (to allow me to get past the problem of not having a gyro for solos) will actually train me in towered communications, I want to be sure that I have a backup plan to receive the endorsement because my local airport is D airspace and a towered airport.
Thanks